The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Throu...

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues b...

Presenter and former England football captain Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his grandfath...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in th...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...

Ring of Fire is about the immense natural force of the great circle of volcanoes and seismic activit...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic conseq...

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. ...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith K...
A documentary about German tourists on vacation in Italy and various activities at their Italian vac...